States in Manchester, has written a very important report onthe Ship Canal for hie Goveroment. In it he has given a full account of the great manufacturing district which the new mode of transport will affect, and although most of the information which he gives is available to readers in detached forms, its collection in the report makes a very epitome of the great cotton spinning county, the salt and chemical works of Cheshire, the potteries and the productions of the Black Country, besides other parts whose industries' will have cheaper carriage on their way to foreign countries through the Canal. The Canal is to be nearly twice the width of the Suez Canal, with 26 feet of water, and the sills of the entrance locks will be 11 feet below the deepest dock sills in Liverpool, and are in sufficiently deep water to be worked at all stages of the tide. Vessels have now to wait for the tide at the Mersey bar, and such vessels will be able to reach Manchester by the Canal before they could be docked at Liverpool. If the traffic on the Canal is carried on at the rate of 5 miles an hour, the distance
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